Here is a picture of a CO 737 in Tokyo, My question is what is it doing there? Does it always fly there?

If you remember a few years back when the US Navy EP-3 made the emergency landing in China after being rammed in flight by the Chinese fighter, they flew the crew back to Hawaii on an Continental Airlines-Air 'Mike' 737-800. Before that Continental used DC-10's and 727-200's.

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog"

Quoting A340Spotter (Reply 18):Only question yet to answer is where they will have them done (costly to fly them all the way to MCO!)...

I think they probably will do it at MCO and just rotate aircraft from the mainland into Air Mike as the current ones leave to get winglets installed. They can always fly revenue segments on the way to MCO to reduce the cost.

Quoting A340Spotter (Reply 18):The 738s flying for CMI are due to have winglets installed later this year. Only question yet to answer is where they will have them done (costly to fly them all the way to MCO!)...

Air Mic 800's are going to HKG to have their winglets installed. We have an Air Mic tech rep here in MCO this week to observe the winglets being installed on our 700's and to learn the paper work requirements before going to HKG to supervise the installation there.

We do swap airplanes out with Air Mic from time to time. But only when they come up for heavy check which we do here in MCO also.